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Nutrition in the perfect storm: Why micronutrient malnutrition will be a high widespread health consequence of high food prices

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  • Journal article
  • Climate Shocks
  • Economic
  • Nutrition
  • Other Crises
Sight and Life Klotz, C., De Pee, S., Thorne- Lyman, A., Kraemer, K., Bloem, M. 2008
Article on how the world is experiencing a dramatic and protracted surge in food prices, attributable to a complex combination of short term cyclical and long-term structural factors that include lower agricultural production, weather shocks, greater demand for grainfed livestock ...
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Food and fertilizer export restrictions tracker

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  • COVID-19 Pandemic
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  • Other Crises
  • Restricted Mobility
  • Ukraine War
Food Security Portal Parent, M., Mamun, A., Laborde, D., 2020
Article on a tool tracking food export restrictions and documenting their impacts following the onset of COVID-19 lockdowns and some national governments moving to restrict food exports. With the intensifying conflict in Ukraine on top of supply chain disruptions, food ...
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A gender-transformative framework for nutrition: Advancing nutrition and gender equality together

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  • COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Health
  • Nutrition
  • Other Crises
  • Women and/or Girls
World vision O'leary, M., Ameur, A., Anderson, S., Holte-Mckenzie, M., Papastavrou, S., Tse, C., Riddle, A., Pentlow, S., Schofield, D., Ahmed, H. 2020
Report on The Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition (GTFN) is a conceptual model supported by research and practice that enables improved gender analysis, solutions design, and monitoring and evaluation of nutrition approaches, as well as interventions promoting women and girls’ empowerment. ...
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Global monitoring of school meals during COVID-19 school closures

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WFP WFP 2022
Database on global monitoring of school meals during COVID-19. 52 Million children are missing out on school meals globally of which 42% are girls.
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A global food crisis: Conflict, COVID, the climate crisis and rising costs have combined in 2022 to create jeopardy for up to 828 million hungry people across the world

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  • Food Insecurity
WFP WFP
Article on the world facing a food crisis of unprecedented proportions, the largest in modern history. Millions are at risk of worsening hunger unless action is taken now to respond at scale to the drivers of this crisis: conflict, climate ...
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Asia and the Pacific regional overview of food security and nutrition 2022: Urban food systems and nutrition – Launch recording, Key messages & Full report

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  • Women and/or Girls
2023-01-24
Press release on the launch and key messages of the fifth annual Asia-Pacific regional SOFI report. The report’s highlights capture the challenges and system-level determinants of unhealthy diets in urban areas, both regarding undernutrition and overweight. It presents, among others, data on food security and affordability and the state of progress on achieving the global nutrition targets. The findings profile various urban environments, interventions, experiences, and opportunities to innovate at multiple levels to transform urban areas into sustainable cities. A link to the report's virtual launch event is available including the recording, key messages, and full report. View Source

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on diets, nutrition services & nutrition practices in UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR): Evidence from remote surveys

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  • COVID-19 Pandemic
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  • Food Insecurity
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  • Women and/or Girls
2023-01-01
Report on the impact of the COVID pandemic on diets, services, and practices in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The report presents findings from remote surveys in six ESAR countries with data on breastfeeding, diet diversity, food consumption and insecurity, drivers of dietary changes, and disruptions to nutrition services. The survey provides important learning for the future use of remote methods for collecting nutrition data. Technical brief, pull report, and six country briefs are available. View Source

Economic shocks predict increases in child wasting prevalence

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2022-04-20
Article on the impact of severe negative economic shock on child acute malnutrition (wasting), a major risk factor for under-5 mortality. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) macroeconomic volatility is common, and severe negative economic shocks can substantially increase poverty and food insecurity. Less well understood are the implications of these contractions for child wasting. This study explores the nutritional impacts of economic growth shocks over 1990–2018 by linking wasting outcomes collected for 1.256 million children from 52 countries to lagged annual changes in economic growth. Estimates suggest that a 10% annual decline in national income increases moderate/severe wasting prevalence by 14.4–17.8%. An exploration of possible mechanisms suggests negative economic shocks may increase risks of inadequate dietary diversity among children. Applying these results to the latest economic growth estimates for 2020 suggests that COVID-19 could put an additional 9.4 million preschoolers at risk of wasting, net of the effects of preventative policy actions. View Source